Did the Conservatives just THROW the 2024 election!

Did the Conservatives just throw the general election.

Fact – No government survives a downturn in the economy, weather its their fault or not.

When I saw Rishi Sunka call the general election in the pouring rain, my instinctive reaction was to say that the Conservatives just threw away power in this election deliberately. Why? I don’t have enough information to answer that question. But what I do know is this. From Wikipedia….

‘’He was educated at Winchester College, studied philosophy, politics and economics at Lincoln College, Oxford, and earned a Master of Business Administration from Stanford University in California as a Fulbright Scholar. During his time at Oxford University, Sunak undertook an internship at Conservative Central Office, and joined the Conservatives. After graduating, Sunak worked for Goldman Sachs and later as a partner at the hedge fund firms the Children's Investment Fund Management and Theleme Partners. ‘’

‘’In August 2009, Sunak married Akshata Murty, the daughter of N R. Narayana Murthy and Sudha Murty. His father-in-law is the founder of the technology company Infosys, in which Murty owns a stake. Sunak and Murty met while studying at Stanford University in the US; they have two daughters: the first born in 2011 and the second in 2013. In November 2020, Sunak was reported by The Guardian to have not declared a significant amount of his wife and family's financial interests on the register of ministers' interests, including a combined £1.7 billion shareholding in the Indian company Infosys.’’

What this tells us about Rishi Sunak is that he is highly educated, a billioaire, well versed in political strategy – definitely not an idiot. YET – what that establishment would have us believe is that, despite all the polling telling that he was facing a landslide defeat, he tipped out of bed one morning and decided to call an election. He would have spoken to Conservative central office who would have told him that the Party was no where near ready to hold an election with some seats not even having a candidate in place. But none the less, he did it anyway.

It was looking dismal for the Conservatives, with Nigel Farages Reform Party set to split the centre right vote in two, and the labour Party way ahead in the polls for months on end. There was literally no hope. It was speculated that he would wait till November when maybe something would turn around to give the Tories some hope, a fall in interest rates for example, or an upturn in the economy. Something – anything. It made no sense to go when it did – but he did it anyway. This at a time when Westminster is stuffed full of political strategist and think tanks and analysts. But he did it anyway.

Why! It makes No sense at all.

Unless he new something that the rest of us didn’t! Why did he go in July rather that November? What is happening in November?

The US general election between Biden and Trump is happening in November.

Never has the US been more divided. Pathologically so.
Never has the USA been in more debt. The USA racks us 1 Trillion dollars in debt ever 90 days.
Biden is handing out cash like it is going out of fashion in the war in Ukraine, in cancelling student debt and as well the normal federal overspend. There is absolute chaos on its southern borders and Democrat run cities resemble something out of Dawn of the dead.
Is the election in November pushing the USA over the edge?

On the 14th of July 2024, Today, a potential assassin took a shot at Republican Party front runner Donald Trump at an election rally, killing a bystander in the crowd and giving Mr Trump a facial injury. Narrowly missing his temple by half an inch.

I have no more information that you do. But I don’t think things are looking up.

So, has the Labour Party just been handed the ultimate poison chalice with the looming collapse of the US dollar which would result in the collapse in the global economy and make the financial crash 2008 look like a tea party.

I hope not. But none of this makes any sense.

Perhaps the Conservatives are playing a long game?